They don't offer hosting but they do offer acceleration and security services (including a free tier that gets you a free CDN and DNS). You need to make them authoratative for your domain so as long as that works with your hosting provider you can try them.

Their acceleration service is a reverse-proxy that sits in front of your hosting which is why the whois records point to them. The real server for the other guy's page is on a regular host somewhere behind the cloudflare servers.

(05-04-2012 12:51 PM)soamz Wrote: Do you have a trial or free plan, so I can test if Cloudflare can improve my speed or not.

The good news is that we start at free Upgrading to a paid plan is entirely optional & based on features that you may want to utilize, but our basic services, including CDN, are free.

There's no way to really test without signing up for the service (all sites are different) as to the site improvement you will see. Most sites, however, see about a 50% improvement in performance or so.